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Time stops. There's no sound, not even the blood that should be rushing in his ears. The Earth stops turning. The stars go dark. For a split second Eric knows what it's like to simply cease existing, to be sucked into a vacuum of silence. And then just as suddenly everything kicks back into gear, like a paused video returning to normal time. Eric can hear the beeps of the registers and the PA system announcing a special on croissants. They're probably not as good as mine, he thinks. He doesn't know why he thinks that, not right now. Not when-

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Suzanne Bittle never thought her life would end up this way. She never thought she'd live for over twenty years in the closet. She never thought she and her son would have so much in common. She never thought she'd get divorced. She never thought she'd move away from Georgia and definitely never thought she'd move to New England.

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Bitty is a southern man, and therefore he knows guns. And, as it turns out, Bitty can SHOOT. His accuracy is incredible enough to almost make his daddy cry, and *almost* enough to make up for all the rest of the things that fuel his childhood bullies' aggressions.

But only almost.

And so he chooses a northern college, far from home - rural enough to feel familiar, but liberal enough that he doesn’t have to be so afraid anymore. Going to the woods on the weekends with the rifle he keeps in storage, shooting for targets until his fingers are numb, helps him with the lingering homesickness.

He didn’t expect to be seen. He never expected to have his name shoved in front of the school biathlon coach, who has his hands full of great skiers but not so many crack-shots.

His folks hadn’t been sure about sending their boy into Yankee territory, but when they hear he could get his degree for free just for firing a gun? They’re on board. But Bitty’s not sure about this whole skiing thing, especially when the team captain is scowling at him harder every time he falls.

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Continuation of Neighbors AU in which Eric manages a Providence bakery and Jack is the Falconers' veteran captain. This installment follows them across holidays during their first year as an established and public couple.

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Bitty couldn’t remember if he was allowed to nod or not. He couldn’t remember what most of the doctors had said to him in the past few days. He was stable, maybe. He was well enough to go home. He was going to spend a few weeks to heal and rest. Bitty didn’t remember whose idea it was to bring him back to Madison, but he felt nothing inside him to argue, not when he was sure it hadn’t been a dream that his mother had cried by his side every time he opened his eyes. He wondered how many days it has been since the incident.

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Sometimes, when you put all your love into your baking, those completed treats can move -- into your neighbor’s kitchen through an open window or out on the table when you’re not looking or tucked away in ladies’ purses or kids’ pockets without anybody any the wiser.